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15 years ago

upgrading computer with FPGA interface

Hi I have a computer that is about 10 years old with a parrellel port connecting to an altera dongle. Anyhow I am upgrading the computer with USB and Eithernet, can anyone suggest a converter that w...
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15 years ago

The USB Blaster (Either the Altera or Terasic versions) basically allow you to program the FPGA through the JTAG interface to the fpga our to program the serial flash in a "Active Serial" programming scheme.

Other capabilities, if the NIOS CPU is use in the FPGA, it allows for debugging of software, and works as a JTAG based UART, as well as allows communication to Signal Tap logic analyzer.

As far as working with Lab-View?? I've never done this, but it should be possible.

Pete